NITDA bill not good for Nigeria, says NCS
As the National Assembly proceeds with its decision to pass the National Information Technology Development Agency bill, the Nigeria Computer Society has warned that it will not do the country any good.
The President of the NCS, Prof. Adesina Sodiya, made this known at a press briefing on Saturday.
According to him, stakeholders were exempted from the decision-making process.
Sodiya notes that it was shoddily put together and thus condemned the bill for attempting to arrogate the powers of other government agencies to NITDA.
He said, “Unfortunately, we got to know from the social media that the bill was being proposed and it had gotten to the advanced stage by the time we got our information.
Sosanya highlighted the institution’s effort to salvage the situation and let the bill reflect the will of the industry.
“We saw that the bill was not good for us as a nation, so we called on NITDA to arrange for a stakeholders meeting. The meeting was held in some cities, but all our inputs, as stakeholders, were not considered.
“We have asked questions, if the new bill is for all of us, we are all part of it. Even the operators in the digital space must make contributions, but we discovered our position was not considered by NITDA.”
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